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The plot is simple: as Madotsuki, a girl that seems to have an obsession with a single, incredibly depressing video game, all you can do each day is sleep - during which you must travel throughout her [[DreamWorld dreamscape]] to collect "effects" and reach new areas in the world. It's extremely open-ended, with little hints as to how to actually progress; really, it's more about exploring the strange and disturbing things that go on in her mind than anything else.
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* AmbiguousSituation: There's no dialogue of any kind, nor anything that might even pass for an InfoDump. All the player is given is a series of surreal, disjointed open worlds to explore and a set of effects they can use to interact with those worlds. Naturally, fan interpretations of every little thing abound.
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* ReclusiveArtist: Kikiyama, the game's creator. We aren't even sure of his/her gender. Ironically, though, we've had their email address this whole time, but no one thought to actually read the readme that came with the game.
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* ReclusiveArtist: Kikiyama, the game's creator. We aren't even sure of his/her gender. Ironically, though, we've had their email address this whole time, but no one thought to This is honestly a subversion if anything. Kikiyama isn't actually read the readme reclusive at all, it's just that came few people bother to contact her (she's generally believed to be a woman, since she refers to herself with female pronouns in the game.one verified e-mail).
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* ReclusiveArtist: Kikiyama, the game's creator. We aren't even sure of his/her gender. Ironically, though, we've had their email address this whole time, but no one thought to actually read the readme that came with the game.
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* TruthInTelevision: Apparently [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/babymantis/lake-retba-senegals-pink-lake-1opu the Pink Sea exists]].
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** Also, in the flying broomstick event, if you try to get off of your broom in mid-flight, [[spoiler: you end up falling to your death.]] Well, at least you wake up before anything seriously detrimental happens. [[spoiler: But you don't at the end of the game.]]
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** Let's not forget the Aztec Rave Monkey, either.
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** Yume Nikki Reimagined by Silent Cicada.
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** [[http://ecks-acksis.deviantart.com/gallery/37271222#/d5arf20 Yume Nikki Reimagined Reimagined]], a remix album by Silent Cicada.
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* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCAs9kAIic This]] glitch? It's not a glitch at all. Kikiyama just knew that someone would ''have'' to talk to walls in this game.
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See also ''LSDDreamEmulator'', a game with a similar premise, [[UpToEleven only in 3D and with randomized environments]]. It is the UrExample of games like this.
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See also ''LSDDreamEmulator'', ''VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator'', a game with a similar premise, [[UpToEleven only in 3D and with randomized environments]]. It is the UrExample of games like this.
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In 2004, Japanese {{freeware}} developer Kikiyama popped open the RPG Maker 2003 game application and thought to herself, "Hey, wouldn't it be an ''awesome'' idea to make something that'll creep a lot of people out?" Such is the origin of ''Yume Nikki'' (Japanese for "dream diary"), a bizarre adventure game that's been described as "''{{EarthBound}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''SilentHill''" or "''{{Eraserhead}}'' in RPGMaker" and does not fail to bring on the weirdness factor.
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* FollowTheLeader: A simply astonishing number of people with time in their hands have taken to making fan games of YumeNikki. The examples in FanSequel are only a few of the more well-known ones.
* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: NASU, the eggplant-catchingminigameminigame.
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* GameWithinAGame: Nasu, the aforementioned incredibly depressing video game which Madotsuki has on what appears to be a NES.
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* DreamWithinADream: There are five beds that can be found in Madotsuki's DreamLand, and one of them allows her to access the Staircase of Hands; which bed does this is randomized every time she falls asleep. Following a path after that allows Madotsuki to enter a Spaceship and meet Seccom Masada. After that, Madotsuki can sleep in ''yet another'' bed inside the spaceship, [[SubvertedTrope only to wake up in the same place]], just as the spaceship crashes on Mars. Due to this, some fans have speculated or interpretated that even the real world is just a dream.
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* DreamWithinADream: There are five beds that can be found in Madotsuki's DreamLand, and one of them allows her to access the Staircase of Hands; which bed does this is randomized every time she falls asleep. Following a path after that allows Madotsuki to enter a Spaceship and meet Seccom Masada. After that, Madotsuki can sleep in ''yet another'' bed inside the spaceship, [[SubvertedTrope only to wake up in the same place]], just as the spaceship crashes on Mars. Due to this, some fans have speculated or interpretated interpreted that even the real world is just a dream.
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The current version of the game, 0.10, was released in October 2007 along with an English translation of the effects and menus. [[http://rapidshare.com/files/106691872/Yume_Nikki_0.10_English_v3.rar.html Download]], and [[NightmareFuel/YumeNikki have fun playing this in the dead of night!]]
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Combined with the [[spoiler:TheUnreveal]]. The player can only guess what's really going on in there.
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** ''{{Yume 2kki}}'': An utterly massive collaborative project. Currently in the ObviousBeta stage, as its still in development.
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->''You will find out... that sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused.''
-->--'''DavidFosterWallace''', ''[[InfiniteJest Infinite Jest]]''
In 2004, Japanese {{freeware}} developer Kikiyama popped open the RPG Maker 2003 game application and thought to herself, "Hey, wouldn't it be an ''awesome'' idea to make something that'll creep a lot of people out?" Such is the origin of ''Yume Nikki'' (Japanese for "dream diary"), a bizarre adventure game that's been described as "''{{EarthBound}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''SilentHill''" or "''{{Eraserhead}}'' in RPGMaker" and does not fail with bringing the weirdness factor on.
The plot is simple: as Madotsuki, a girl that seems to have an obsession with a single, incredibly depressing video game, all you can do each day is sleep - during which you must travel throughout her [[DreamWorld dreamscape]] to collect "effects" and reach new areas in the world. It's extremely open-ended, with little hints as to how to actually progress; really, it's more about exploring the strange and disturbing things that go on in her mind than anything else.
The current version of the game, 0.10, was released in October 2007 along with an English translation of the effects and menus. [[http://rapidshare.com/files/106691872/Yume_Nikki_0.10_English_v3.rar.html Download]], and [[NightmareFuel/YumeNikki have fun playing this in the dead of night!]]
For French Tropers, the game was recently fully translated in Molière's language and is available for download [[http://www.rpg-maker.fr/jeux-556-yume-nikki-version-francaise.html here]].
See also ''LSDDreamEmulator'', a game with a similar premise, [[UpToEleven only in 3D and with randomized environments]]. It is the UrExample of games like this.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not related to]] ''MiraiNikki''.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AcidTripDimension
* AlienBlood: Averted: when Madotsuki stabs a [[OurMonstersAreWeird creature]] it doesn't matter what it is --a bird girl, a giant foot-Martian who cries green tears, a poop monster, a horrified face on the wall-- they will always bleed red blood.
* AllJustADream: The entirety of Madotsuki's adventures. Of course, this is no secret.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Mainly the people in the Mall, but there are strangely colored people in other areas too, like Shitai.
* AmbidextrousSprite: Averted with the Knife effect. Madotsuki always holds the knife in one particular hand regardless of what direction she's facing. You can change the hand she holds the knife in by pressing '1'.
* AnIcePerson: The "Yuki-Onna" effect gives Madotsuki the ability to start a snowstorm.
* ArtShift: Pretty much the whole game. Most areas have different styles, like Number/Neon world, the forests, the wildernesses... and the 8-bit-area.
* BerserkButton: Normal Toriningen do not appreciate it when they or their brethren get stabbed.
* BizarroFiction: One of the few non-literature works that can definitely be called this.
* BlackoutBasement: The Dark World and the dark maze.
* TheBlank: The "Nopperabou" effect.
* BodyHorror:
** A lot of the things you find around the dreamworld could apply. Like those horrifying portraits you find in the sewers.
** The white desert itself seems to be composed of various body parts sticking out of the ground in places. It's also where you find Monoko, the five-armed girl.
* BodyMotifs: Eyes and hands, as well as anything [[FreudWasRight Freudian]].
* CatGirl: The Cat effect, naturally. It draws [=NPCs=] to you -- even Uboa, who doesn't move on his own!
* CrapsackWorld /CrapSaccharineWorld /EldritchLocation /SugarBowl: All the dreamscapes exist somewhere on this spectrum. From Hell, to the park at night time, to the world of blocks, to the forest, cheerful neon city. Some places are even in between like the refugee camp, the mall, or the monster bar.
* CosmeticAward: Almost all of the effects do nothing meaningful except alter Madotsuki's appearance.
* CreepyChild: Madotsuki could be interpreted as this. She is a quiet {{Hikikomori}} who has no qualms about stabbing numerous innocent creatures to death within her highly disturbing dreamscape.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Some rooms seem like part of a larger area, but are actually entirely separate from it. Examples include the secret room Hell's Crossroads, which is smaller and simpler than its more major counterpart, and the second Wilderness area, which serves only to connect the Teleport Maze and the Famicom World. A case of [[TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]], as this trope is used to induce MindScrew and EmptyRoomPsych.
* CuteAndPsycho[=/=]AxCrazy: Another, less popular Madotsuki representation, based on a [[KnifeNut certain effect]].
* CuteWitch: Madotsuki can become one through the Witch effect.
* DeconstructionGame: Gameplay-wise, the game takes non-linear exploration to its logical extreme, basing itself entirely on traversing BeautifulVoid and little else. While it may or [[IndecisiveDeconstruction may not]] have been the author's intent, it does prove a point to gamers with little patience.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The White Desert and Spaceship areas.
* DreamLand: The entire premise of the game.
* DreamPeople: Because Madotsuki won't leave her bedroom in her waking life, these individuals are the only ones she can encounter and interact with.
* DreamWithinADream: One possible interpretation.
* DroneOfDread: Several of the background songs, like the appropriately named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoxM-QT4xsc "Hellish Hum"]].
* DownerEnding/[[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]
* DownTheRabbitHole: Because Madotsuki has few things to due in her waking world besides refuse to leave her bedroom, play her Famicon, or visit her balcony, she spends most of her time exploring her bizarre dream world as she sleeps.
* DummiedOut: There are two huge islands on the 8-bit plains map that can't be accessed without cheating.
* EldritchAbomination: So many of them scattered across the dream.
* EmptyRoomPsych: There are dozens of rooms that look like effort was put into making them stand out but have nothing going on. Like nearly everything else in the game, [[NothingIsScarier this is most likely intended to creep out the player]].
* EmptyShell: Nearly all of the characters Madotsuki sees in her dreams are this, [[JustifiedTrope being nothing more than fragments of her imagination]]. Madotsuki herself may also be one, as she lacks any personality other than what's shown in her dreams, forcing you to fill in this void and come up with your own interpretation.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Madotsuki.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The Medamaude effect.
* FanNickname: Many of the character and area names are unofficial.
* FanSequel: A number of them, here's a short list:
** ''{{Yume 2kki}}'': An utterly massive collaborative project. Currently in the ObviousBeta stage, as its still in development.
** ''{{dotflow}}'' which ratchets up the horror elements.
** ''Yume Nisshi''
** ''{{LcdDem}}'' which implements a more serene atmosphere.
** ''SICKMIND''
** ''{{Amnesia}}'': which stars a ghost girl.
** ''Answered Prayers:'' which is currently unfinished but seems to be shaping up to be a deconstruction of this kind of game, given that [[spoiler: your character can talk.]]
** ''[[http://dreamvsdream.99k.org/ Dream vs. Dream]]'': A work in progress fighter fangame which includes characters from ''Yume Nikki'' and several of the more popular fangames.
** Besides these, there are more (Japanese and Western) Fangames in the works.
* {{Fanwork}}:
** The excellent "24 effects" remix album.
** [[http://strangestoriesaboutsadpeople.blogspot.com/2010/08/mars-residence-dream-diary.html Mars Residence]].
** [[http://www.gamingpixie.com/102/all-videos/gamereviews/gaiden-review-yume-nikki/ This fan film]].
** An upcoming remix album by Silent Cicada. Official journal on deviantART [[http://fav.me/d4iux47 here]]
** This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdEUdmgxR0 fan vid]] illustrating one possible explanation for the events in the game.
* FatGirl: The Fat effect allows Madotsuki to become this.
* FetchQuest[=/=]GottaCatchEmAll: The 24 effects.
* FishEyes: Masada has 6_9 shaped eyes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One may notice a recurring bloodstain on the ground in the dream world.
** Which is located near the recurring Mouth Monsters. [[EpilepticTrees Could it possibly mean that... ?]]
* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: NASU, the eggplant-catching minigame
* GagPenis: Kyukyu-kun resembles a column-sized pink dildo with a perpetual smile on it.
* GameBreakingBug: Parodied in the 8-bit dungeon with a particular event where [[spoiler:"talking" to a seemingly-nondescript wall tile will cause it to bring up a dialogue box with [[NothingIsScarier nothing in it]], and repeated interactions with it will cause the graphics to corrupt and the game to eventually "crash" 8-bit style, followed by Madotsuki waking up.]]
* GenreBusting: It's made on RPG Maker, but it's not an RPG. It's a horror game... Except not really. It's an adventure game. It's an exploration game. What is it, anyway?
** "Exploration game" is probably the closest guess, but you could call it a number of other types and nobody could say that you're really wrong.
* GirlishPigtails: The Toriningen and Monoko have these. Madotsuki also has her braids.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Madotsuki wields her knife liberally upon the residents within her dreams.
* GrotesqueGallery
* GuideDangIt: It's quite unlikely that you'll find every event and place on your own.
* HalfHumanHybrids: The Toriningen. Their species name literally means "bird person".
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Actually, even this is ambiguous. In fact, some cite the fact that dream world jellyfish appear near Madotsuki's blood pool as proof that Madotsuki didn't die, or that [[EpilepticTrees the real world was ALSO]] AllJustADream.]]
* HeroicMime: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as there isn't any dialogue to be shared in the first place.
* {{Hikikomori}}: One AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Madotsuki.
* HitPoints: You start with one. You gain more by drinking soda you get for money. [[GogglesDoNothing They serve no purpose whatsoever]] ...seemingly.
* {{Homage}}:
** One of the areas of the game is rendered in an 8-bit style reminiscent of the original ''[[EarthboundZero Mother]]''. Even the Effects menu transforms to fit the motif. It even includes an exact replica of the palace and its immediate surroundings from that game's {{Magicant}}.
** Remember when your game would crash because the cartridge wasn't inserted correctly or was dirty? There is an event that simulates that.
* ImageBoards: [[http://uboachan.net/ Uboachan]]
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]], when Madotsuki is denied being able to join a Toriningen picnic because of a few plants in her way ([[FridgeLogic that might easily be cut down by her knife effect]]); this can be taken as a sign of social exclusion.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Combined with the [[spoiler:TheUnreveal]]. The player can only guess what's really going on in there.
* JumpScare: Could be evoked by several events. For example, encountering Uboa, getting eaten by Big Red, going through the door with FACE in it...
* JustOneMoreLevel: ShowWithinAShow NASU.
* KonamiCode: Typing left, right, left, right, up, up, down, down, on Nasu's title screen causes the character's head to turn into an eggplant.
* KnifeNut: Most [=NPCs=] don't react to you at all when you try to interact with them. So what else can Madotsuki do to get an interesting reaction out of them? Stab them!
* LetsPlay: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwDplGAI70 Here's]] one of the better-known ones. Since most of the fun of Yume Nikki is in the exploration, it's advised that potential players give the game a whirl before watching, or else only watch a little bit at first to determine if it's the right game for you.
** Another one is located on [[http://lparchive.org/Yume-Nikki/ the Let's Play archive]]. It uses subtitles in an attempt to retain the ambiance of the original game.
* LonelyPianoPiece: Used in a dark, isolated boiler room with a crying Mars-san.
* LooksLikeCesare: Masada and Uboa.
* {{Mayincatec}}: A lot of things in Madotsuki's dreams seem to vaguely resemble Meso-American deals. So much so that one event is referred to as "Disco Aztecs".
* TheMaze: Quite a few. And the game never gives any hints about where the effects are hidden, so you'll just have to try every single path if you don't want to use a walkthrough.
* MeaningfulName: Although the literal translation of "Madotsuki" is "windowed," and thus possibly a reference to her shirt pattern, it's also a somewhat obscure Japanese term for a person who spends a long time looking out the window; that is, a daydreamer.
* MemeticOutfit: Madotsuki's shirt.
* MentalStory: It's about a ''hikikomori'' lucid dreamer, whose primary interaction with the products of her subconscious is to stab them with knives.
** However, this could be explained by them being nightmares, in which case one would be likely to either run or fight any beings.
* MentalWorld: Of course.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead
* MindScrew
* MiniGame: "NASU" (Japanese for "eggplant"), the most depressingly futile minigame ever made. It doesn't help one's spirits that the game music (only heard when you start the game and inevitably lose) is off-rhythm and out of tune.
* MistakenIdentity: A funny meta example, fans stumble onto [[http://www.youtube.com/user/kikiyama this Youtube channel]], thinking it's the same Kikiyama who made this game.
* MookBouncer: The crazy Toriningen always warp you to an inescapable area. Stabbing a nice Toriningen will make her into one of these.
* MoodWhiplash: The Toriningen picnic.
* NightmareFace: Many, with the most memorable being, well, Face.
* NightmareSequence: The game consists largely of a series of these.
* NonstandardGameOver: The normal way to end your dream session and wake up is to pinch yourself awake. However, certain events, such as FACE, the 8-bit game crash event, and [[spoiler:disembarking your broom during the witch event]] will involuntarily wake Madotsuki back up.
* NothingIsScarier: The message boxes, which appear before the "Glitch" event, are unsettling empty. So is the entire dungeon area, which is dark (necessitating the use of the Lamp effect if you wanna see where you're going), and the room where the event occurs is an eerie, nondescript dead-end. See also the EmptyRoomPsych example above.
** This also applies anywhere no [=NPCs=] can be found in.
* OffWithHisHead: the Severed Head effect
* [[OverlyLongName Overly Long Fan-Given Nickname]]: Seccom Masada's. "Seccom Masada" is the abridged form of [[TheWoobie Sentimental]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komuro_Tetsuya Komuro]] [[MichaelJackson Maikeru]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto Sakamoto]] {{Dada}} Sensei. Fans mostly nicknamed him after several famous people he resembles.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: What else would inhabit a creepy and surreal dream world?
* ParentalAbandonment: Where ''are'' her parents? Or at least any existing caretaker? How young is she, anyway?
* PerpetualBeta: The game is still in v0.10. This is also true of its fangames.
* PinchMe: Literally, pinching herself gets Madotsuki out of the dream world.
* PressXToDie: During the Witch event, you fly over a huge cityscape. Pressing "1" (which normally causes you to disembark your broom) will cause the screen to fade out, followed by a crashing sound and you waking up on the floor face first.
* QuicksandBox: Since there is absolutely no dialogue or anything vaguely resembling a hint, getting completely lost is a very real possibility.
** Fortunately, getting out of them is as simple as a single press of a key.
* TheQuietOne: Madotsuki only can say two (Japanese) lines in the game, and that's when she can't use an effect or can't perform an action due to an effect being in use: "Dame" (No) and "Muri" (Impossible).
* RandomlyDrops: Not quite a drop, but lots of events are random.
** Triggering the Uboa event is a 1-in-64 chance. The element of surprise makes it all the more terrifying.
** The Mars Event has a 1 in 20 chance, contrary to most events having 1 in 64.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egd1EK_VnSQ A particular event in the White Desert]] has a whopping [[spoiler: 1 in 3600 chance]]. It's called Takofuusen (octopus balloon), by the way.
*** Some believe it's actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_reversed_arterial_perfusion this.]] Warning! Squick!
*** To be fair, that chance comes with every step. It's not generated once you enter the map or every time you sleep or anything like that, so walking around for a few minutes will usually produce a Takofuusen.
** A more straight example is money, which randomly drops from killed foes.
** The Aztec event on Madotsuki's TV.
* {{Retraux}}: The "{{Famicom}} World" areas.
** Also [[MiniGame NASU]], which is made in an 8-bit style and appears to be played on a Famicom.
* ScareChord: From Uboa when you encounter him.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: So, you explored all your dreams, just so you can [[spoiler: walk up a few steps and jump to your death, from the same balcony that you start out on. As if you couldn't have done that in the first place?]]
** However, it could be because [[spoiler:her "dreams" are actually suppressed traumatic events that haunt her in her dreams, forcing her to seek help - something she's unlikely to do - live with it, or commit suicide to stop the nightmares.]] The only reason she deals with these all these horrors at once is because ''you'' force her to, leading to [[spoiler:her mind being unable to handle the stress, thus making her choose suicide]]. Of course, ''what'' would have had to happen to cause those to be traumatic events is up to the imagination.
* SurrealHorror
* TurnsRed: Normal Toriningen will normally go about their business, leaving you alone. If you anger them by stabbing one, they will turn mad and chase you, banishing you to an inescapable area if they catch you.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The Witch Event, sort of. Nothing happens save for Witch!Madotsuki flying over a city in HorizontalScrollingShooter fashion.
* TheUnintelligible: Masada the alien pianist can only vocalize in chirps and beeps.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can stab virtually anything with the Knife effect, which sometimes gives you money. There's a reason some depictions of her are gleefully homicidal.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Stabbing a sane Toriningen will make her demented and turns her into a [[GoddamnBats Goddamn Bat]]. Stabbing one of the sane ones in the number world might cause the area where you get the Severed Head effect to be larger, with more Toriningen chasing you. The candle world also contains one that is VERY FAST when angered, almost guaranteeing you'll get caught if you anger her.
** How fast? Activate the faster of the two speed glitches. It will be able to keep pace with you.
** Also, if you make one Toriningen mad, they '''all''' get mad, and will stay mad until the next time you wake up.
* WarpWhistle: The Medamaude effect, which brings you back to the Nexus.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The creature Uboa highly resembles a distorted Noh mask. If you encounter Uboa, he emits a ScareChord and you are locked within the dark room with him. If you touch him, he teleports you to a nightmarish inescapable area.
* WideOpenSandbox
* WidgetSeries: A rather dark one, at that.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://yumenikki.wikia.com/ Here.]]
* WorldMap: A certain area looks like one of these, which is itself another Homage.
* WrapAround: Some areas do this, making the area seem much larger than it actually is.
* {{Youkai}}: A number of effects, Yuki-onna and Oni in particular.
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->''You will find out... that sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused.''
-->--'''DavidFosterWallace''', ''[[InfiniteJest Infinite Jest]]''
In 2004, Japanese {{freeware}} developer Kikiyama popped open the RPG Maker 2003 game application and thought to herself, "Hey, wouldn't it be an ''awesome'' idea to make something that'll creep a lot of people out?" Such is the origin of ''Yume Nikki'' (Japanese for "dream diary"), a bizarre adventure game that's been described as "''{{EarthBound}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''SilentHill''" or "''{{Eraserhead}}'' in RPGMaker" and does not fail with bringing the weirdness factor on.
The plot is simple: as Madotsuki, a girl that seems to have an obsession with a single, incredibly depressing video game, all you can do each day is sleep - during which you must travel throughout her [[DreamWorld dreamscape]] to collect "effects" and reach new areas in the world. It's extremely open-ended, with little hints as to how to actually progress; really, it's more about exploring the strange and disturbing things that go on in her mind than anything else.
The current version of the game, 0.10, was released in October 2007 along with an English translation of the effects and menus. [[http://rapidshare.com/files/106691872/Yume_Nikki_0.10_English_v3.rar.html Download]], and [[NightmareFuel/YumeNikki have fun playing this in the dead of night!]]
For French Tropers, the game was recently fully translated in Molière's language and is available for download [[http://www.rpg-maker.fr/jeux-556-yume-nikki-version-francaise.html here]].
See also ''LSDDreamEmulator'', a game with a similar premise, [[UpToEleven only in 3D and with randomized environments]]. It is the UrExample of games like this.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not related to]] ''MiraiNikki''.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AcidTripDimension
* AlienBlood: Averted: when Madotsuki stabs a [[OurMonstersAreWeird creature]] it doesn't matter what it is --a bird girl, a giant foot-Martian who cries green tears, a poop monster, a horrified face on the wall-- they will always bleed red blood.
* AllJustADream: The entirety of Madotsuki's adventures. Of course, this is no secret.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Mainly the people in the Mall, but there are strangely colored people in other areas too, like Shitai.
* AmbidextrousSprite: Averted with the Knife effect. Madotsuki always holds the knife in one particular hand regardless of what direction she's facing. You can change the hand she holds the knife in by pressing '1'.
* AnIcePerson: The "Yuki-Onna" effect gives Madotsuki the ability to start a snowstorm.
* ArtShift: Pretty much the whole game. Most areas have different styles, like Number/Neon world, the forests, the wildernesses... and the 8-bit-area.
* BerserkButton: Normal Toriningen do not appreciate it when they or their brethren get stabbed.
* BizarroFiction: One of the few non-literature works that can definitely be called this.
* BlackoutBasement: The Dark World and the dark maze.
* TheBlank: The "Nopperabou" effect.
* BodyHorror:
** A lot of the things you find around the dreamworld could apply. Like those horrifying portraits you find in the sewers.
** The white desert itself seems to be composed of various body parts sticking out of the ground in places. It's also where you find Monoko, the five-armed girl.
* BodyMotifs: Eyes and hands, as well as anything [[FreudWasRight Freudian]].
* CatGirl: The Cat effect, naturally. It draws [=NPCs=] to you -- even Uboa, who doesn't move on his own!
* CrapsackWorld /CrapSaccharineWorld /EldritchLocation /SugarBowl: All the dreamscapes exist somewhere on this spectrum. From Hell, to the park at night time, to the world of blocks, to the forest, cheerful neon city. Some places are even in between like the refugee camp, the mall, or the monster bar.
* CosmeticAward: Almost all of the effects do nothing meaningful except alter Madotsuki's appearance.
* CreepyChild: Madotsuki could be interpreted as this. She is a quiet {{Hikikomori}} who has no qualms about stabbing numerous innocent creatures to death within her highly disturbing dreamscape.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Some rooms seem like part of a larger area, but are actually entirely separate from it. Examples include the secret room Hell's Crossroads, which is smaller and simpler than its more major counterpart, and the second Wilderness area, which serves only to connect the Teleport Maze and the Famicom World. A case of [[TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]], as this trope is used to induce MindScrew and EmptyRoomPsych.
* CuteAndPsycho[=/=]AxCrazy: Another, less popular Madotsuki representation, based on a [[KnifeNut certain effect]].
* CuteWitch: Madotsuki can become one through the Witch effect.
* DeconstructionGame: Gameplay-wise, the game takes non-linear exploration to its logical extreme, basing itself entirely on traversing BeautifulVoid and little else. While it may or [[IndecisiveDeconstruction may not]] have been the author's intent, it does prove a point to gamers with little patience.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The White Desert and Spaceship areas.
* DreamLand: The entire premise of the game.
* DreamPeople: Because Madotsuki won't leave her bedroom in her waking life, these individuals are the only ones she can encounter and interact with.
* DreamWithinADream: One possible interpretation.
* DroneOfDread: Several of the background songs, like the appropriately named [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoxM-QT4xsc "Hellish Hum"]].
* DownerEnding/[[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]
* DownTheRabbitHole: Because Madotsuki has few things to due in her waking world besides refuse to leave her bedroom, play her Famicon, or visit her balcony, she spends most of her time exploring her bizarre dream world as she sleeps.
* DummiedOut: There are two huge islands on the 8-bit plains map that can't be accessed without cheating.
* EldritchAbomination: So many of them scattered across the dream.
* EmptyRoomPsych: There are dozens of rooms that look like effort was put into making them stand out but have nothing going on. Like nearly everything else in the game, [[NothingIsScarier this is most likely intended to creep out the player]].
* EmptyShell: Nearly all of the characters Madotsuki sees in her dreams are this, [[JustifiedTrope being nothing more than fragments of her imagination]]. Madotsuki herself may also be one, as she lacks any personality other than what's shown in her dreams, forcing you to fill in this void and come up with your own interpretation.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Madotsuki.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The Medamaude effect.
* FanNickname: Many of the character and area names are unofficial.
* FanSequel: A number of them, here's a short list:
** ''{{Yume 2kki}}'': An utterly massive collaborative project. Currently in the ObviousBeta stage, as its still in development.
** ''{{dotflow}}'' which ratchets up the horror elements.
** ''Yume Nisshi''
** ''{{LcdDem}}'' which implements a more serene atmosphere.
** ''SICKMIND''
** ''{{Amnesia}}'': which stars a ghost girl.
** ''Answered Prayers:'' which is currently unfinished but seems to be shaping up to be a deconstruction of this kind of game, given that [[spoiler: your character can talk.]]
** ''[[http://dreamvsdream.99k.org/ Dream vs. Dream]]'': A work in progress fighter fangame which includes characters from ''Yume Nikki'' and several of the more popular fangames.
** Besides these, there are more (Japanese and Western) Fangames in the works.
* {{Fanwork}}:
** The excellent "24 effects" remix album.
** [[http://strangestoriesaboutsadpeople.blogspot.com/2010/08/mars-residence-dream-diary.html Mars Residence]].
** [[http://www.gamingpixie.com/102/all-videos/gamereviews/gaiden-review-yume-nikki/ This fan film]].
** An upcoming remix album by Silent Cicada. Official journal on deviantART [[http://fav.me/d4iux47 here]]
** This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdEUdmgxR0 fan vid]] illustrating one possible explanation for the events in the game.
* FatGirl: The Fat effect allows Madotsuki to become this.
* FetchQuest[=/=]GottaCatchEmAll: The 24 effects.
* FishEyes: Masada has 6_9 shaped eyes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One may notice a recurring bloodstain on the ground in the dream world.
** Which is located near the recurring Mouth Monsters. [[EpilepticTrees Could it possibly mean that... ?]]
* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: NASU, the eggplant-catching minigame
* GagPenis: Kyukyu-kun resembles a column-sized pink dildo with a perpetual smile on it.
* GameBreakingBug: Parodied in the 8-bit dungeon with a particular event where [[spoiler:"talking" to a seemingly-nondescript wall tile will cause it to bring up a dialogue box with [[NothingIsScarier nothing in it]], and repeated interactions with it will cause the graphics to corrupt and the game to eventually "crash" 8-bit style, followed by Madotsuki waking up.]]
* GenreBusting: It's made on RPG Maker, but it's not an RPG. It's a horror game... Except not really. It's an adventure game. It's an exploration game. What is it, anyway?
** "Exploration game" is probably the closest guess, but you could call it a number of other types and nobody could say that you're really wrong.
* GirlishPigtails: The Toriningen and Monoko have these. Madotsuki also has her braids.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Madotsuki wields her knife liberally upon the residents within her dreams.
* GrotesqueGallery
* GuideDangIt: It's quite unlikely that you'll find every event and place on your own.
* HalfHumanHybrids: The Toriningen. Their species name literally means "bird person".
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Actually, even this is ambiguous. In fact, some cite the fact that dream world jellyfish appear near Madotsuki's blood pool as proof that Madotsuki didn't die, or that [[EpilepticTrees the real world was ALSO]] AllJustADream.]]
* HeroicMime: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as there isn't any dialogue to be shared in the first place.
* {{Hikikomori}}: One AlternateCharacterInterpretation of Madotsuki.
* HitPoints: You start with one. You gain more by drinking soda you get for money. [[GogglesDoNothing They serve no purpose whatsoever]] ...seemingly.
* {{Homage}}:
** One of the areas of the game is rendered in an 8-bit style reminiscent of the original ''[[EarthboundZero Mother]]''. Even the Effects menu transforms to fit the motif. It even includes an exact replica of the palace and its immediate surroundings from that game's {{Magicant}}.
** Remember when your game would crash because the cartridge wasn't inserted correctly or was dirty? There is an event that simulates that.
* ImageBoards: [[http://uboachan.net/ Uboachan]]
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]], when Madotsuki is denied being able to join a Toriningen picnic because of a few plants in her way ([[FridgeLogic that might easily be cut down by her knife effect]]); this can be taken as a sign of social exclusion.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Combined with the [[spoiler:TheUnreveal]]. The player can only guess what's really going on in there.
* JumpScare: Could be evoked by several events. For example, encountering Uboa, getting eaten by Big Red, going through the door with FACE in it...
* JustOneMoreLevel: ShowWithinAShow NASU.
* KonamiCode: Typing left, right, left, right, up, up, down, down, on Nasu's title screen causes the character's head to turn into an eggplant.
* KnifeNut: Most [=NPCs=] don't react to you at all when you try to interact with them. So what else can Madotsuki do to get an interesting reaction out of them? Stab them!
* LetsPlay: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwDplGAI70 Here's]] one of the better-known ones. Since most of the fun of Yume Nikki is in the exploration, it's advised that potential players give the game a whirl before watching, or else only watch a little bit at first to determine if it's the right game for you.
** Another one is located on [[http://lparchive.org/Yume-Nikki/ the Let's Play archive]]. It uses subtitles in an attempt to retain the ambiance of the original game.
* LonelyPianoPiece: Used in a dark, isolated boiler room with a crying Mars-san.
* LooksLikeCesare: Masada and Uboa.
* {{Mayincatec}}: A lot of things in Madotsuki's dreams seem to vaguely resemble Meso-American deals. So much so that one event is referred to as "Disco Aztecs".
* TheMaze: Quite a few. And the game never gives any hints about where the effects are hidden, so you'll just have to try every single path if you don't want to use a walkthrough.
* MeaningfulName: Although the literal translation of "Madotsuki" is "windowed," and thus possibly a reference to her shirt pattern, it's also a somewhat obscure Japanese term for a person who spends a long time looking out the window; that is, a daydreamer.
* MemeticOutfit: Madotsuki's shirt.
* MentalStory: It's about a ''hikikomori'' lucid dreamer, whose primary interaction with the products of her subconscious is to stab them with knives.
** However, this could be explained by them being nightmares, in which case one would be likely to either run or fight any beings.
* MentalWorld: Of course.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead
* MindScrew
* MiniGame: "NASU" (Japanese for "eggplant"), the most depressingly futile minigame ever made. It doesn't help one's spirits that the game music (only heard when you start the game and inevitably lose) is off-rhythm and out of tune.
* MistakenIdentity: A funny meta example, fans stumble onto [[http://www.youtube.com/user/kikiyama this Youtube channel]], thinking it's the same Kikiyama who made this game.
* MookBouncer: The crazy Toriningen always warp you to an inescapable area. Stabbing a nice Toriningen will make her into one of these.
* MoodWhiplash: The Toriningen picnic.
* NightmareFace: Many, with the most memorable being, well, Face.
* NightmareSequence: The game consists largely of a series of these.
* NonstandardGameOver: The normal way to end your dream session and wake up is to pinch yourself awake. However, certain events, such as FACE, the 8-bit game crash event, and [[spoiler:disembarking your broom during the witch event]] will involuntarily wake Madotsuki back up.
* NothingIsScarier: The message boxes, which appear before the "Glitch" event, are unsettling empty. So is the entire dungeon area, which is dark (necessitating the use of the Lamp effect if you wanna see where you're going), and the room where the event occurs is an eerie, nondescript dead-end. See also the EmptyRoomPsych example above.
** This also applies anywhere no [=NPCs=] can be found in.
* OffWithHisHead: the Severed Head effect
* [[OverlyLongName Overly Long Fan-Given Nickname]]: Seccom Masada's. "Seccom Masada" is the abridged form of [[TheWoobie Sentimental]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komuro_Tetsuya Komuro]] [[MichaelJackson Maikeru]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto Sakamoto]] {{Dada}} Sensei. Fans mostly nicknamed him after several famous people he resembles.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: What else would inhabit a creepy and surreal dream world?
* ParentalAbandonment: Where ''are'' her parents? Or at least any existing caretaker? How young is she, anyway?
* PerpetualBeta: The game is still in v0.10. This is also true of its fangames.
* PinchMe: Literally, pinching herself gets Madotsuki out of the dream world.
* PressXToDie: During the Witch event, you fly over a huge cityscape. Pressing "1" (which normally causes you to disembark your broom) will cause the screen to fade out, followed by a crashing sound and you waking up on the floor face first.
* QuicksandBox: Since there is absolutely no dialogue or anything vaguely resembling a hint, getting completely lost is a very real possibility.
** Fortunately, getting out of them is as simple as a single press of a key.
* TheQuietOne: Madotsuki only can say two (Japanese) lines in the game, and that's when she can't use an effect or can't perform an action due to an effect being in use: "Dame" (No) and "Muri" (Impossible).
* RandomlyDrops: Not quite a drop, but lots of events are random.
** Triggering the Uboa event is a 1-in-64 chance. The element of surprise makes it all the more terrifying.
** The Mars Event has a 1 in 20 chance, contrary to most events having 1 in 64.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egd1EK_VnSQ A particular event in the White Desert]] has a whopping [[spoiler: 1 in 3600 chance]]. It's called Takofuusen (octopus balloon), by the way.
*** Some believe it's actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_reversed_arterial_perfusion this.]] Warning! Squick!
*** To be fair, that chance comes with every step. It's not generated once you enter the map or every time you sleep or anything like that, so walking around for a few minutes will usually produce a Takofuusen.
** A more straight example is money, which randomly drops from killed foes.
** The Aztec event on Madotsuki's TV.
* {{Retraux}}: The "{{Famicom}} World" areas.
** Also [[MiniGame NASU]], which is made in an 8-bit style and appears to be played on a Famicom.
* ScareChord: From Uboa when you encounter him.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: So, you explored all your dreams, just so you can [[spoiler: walk up a few steps and jump to your death, from the same balcony that you start out on. As if you couldn't have done that in the first place?]]
** However, it could be because [[spoiler:her "dreams" are actually suppressed traumatic events that haunt her in her dreams, forcing her to seek help - something she's unlikely to do - live with it, or commit suicide to stop the nightmares.]] The only reason she deals with these all these horrors at once is because ''you'' force her to, leading to [[spoiler:her mind being unable to handle the stress, thus making her choose suicide]]. Of course, ''what'' would have had to happen to cause those to be traumatic events is up to the imagination.
* SurrealHorror
* TurnsRed: Normal Toriningen will normally go about their business, leaving you alone. If you anger them by stabbing one, they will turn mad and chase you, banishing you to an inescapable area if they catch you.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The Witch Event, sort of. Nothing happens save for Witch!Madotsuki flying over a city in HorizontalScrollingShooter fashion.
* TheUnintelligible: Masada the alien pianist can only vocalize in chirps and beeps.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can stab virtually anything with the Knife effect, which sometimes gives you money. There's a reason some depictions of her are gleefully homicidal.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Stabbing a sane Toriningen will make her demented and turns her into a [[GoddamnBats Goddamn Bat]]. Stabbing one of the sane ones in the number world might cause the area where you get the Severed Head effect to be larger, with more Toriningen chasing you. The candle world also contains one that is VERY FAST when angered, almost guaranteeing you'll get caught if you anger her.
** How fast? Activate the faster of the two speed glitches. It will be able to keep pace with you.
** Also, if you make one Toriningen mad, they '''all''' get mad, and will stay mad until the next time you wake up.
* WarpWhistle: The Medamaude effect, which brings you back to the Nexus.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The creature Uboa highly resembles a distorted Noh mask. If you encounter Uboa, he emits a ScareChord and you are locked within the dark room with him. If you touch him, he teleports you to a nightmarish inescapable area.
* WideOpenSandbox
* WidgetSeries: A rather dark one, at that.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://yumenikki.wikia.com/ Here.]]
* WorldMap: A certain area looks like one of these, which is itself another Homage.
* WrapAround: Some areas do this, making the area seem much larger than it actually is.
* {{Youkai}}: A number of effects, Yuki-onna and Oni in particular.
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